From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CC66B0047 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:45:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from spaceape13.eur.corp.google.com (spaceape13.eur.corp.google.com [172.28.16.147]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id o1BLjcmk032105 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:45:39 -0800 Received: from pxi41 (pxi41.prod.google.com [10.243.27.41]) by spaceape13.eur.corp.google.com with ESMTP id o1BLj7ua030025 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:45:37 -0800 Received: by pxi41 with SMTP id 41so1174897pxi.27 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:45:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:45:32 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache_reap In-Reply-To: <20100211205404.085FEB1978@basil.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <20100211953.850854588@firstfloor.org> <20100211205404.085FEB1978@basil.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, haicheng.li@intel.com List-ID: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > > cache_reap can run before the node is set up and then reference a NULL > l3 list. Check for this explicitely and just continue. The node > will be eventually set up. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: David Rientjes -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org